Borangi Secondary school chaplain has raised alarm over increased use of contraceptives among school girls that could lead to barrenness in their later life.
Speaking to parents at the school in Nyamache Sub County,Kisii County, the school chaplain, Elizabeth Machuki blamed parents who exposed their daughters to the practice because of fear that they might get pregnant in the course of their education and be forced to discontinue.
“Most students who talk to us say that parents forced them to take contraceptives that last for five to ten years and expose them to impotency after school.” She said.
The pastor asked parents to introduce their daughter to Christian principles that encourage abstinence from sex before marriage because it will not only protect them from getting pregnancy but also from sexually transmitted (STD).
She said that economic hardships like hunger at school, lack of enough personal effects like sanitary towels and ointments force students to indulge in sexual intercourse with adults in exchange of money and in the process they end up being pregnant while at school and resort to abortion which that may either kill them or kill the inborn child.
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“When parents learn about the rampant abortion cases among their daughters they resort to blindly introducing the girls into contraceptives without minding their later side effects.” She said.
She emphasized on the building and sustaining of communities’ awareness on the adolescent sexual and reproductive health if the problem has to be overcome.
She took a swipe at backstreet medical practitioners who collude with school girls to abort without sensitizing them on its long term consequences.
Saying that abortion is a crime, Machuki appealed to any school girl who might fall a victim of teenage pregnancy to be honest to themselves, parents and teachers, and reveal the problem for guidance and counselling for the welfare of both the escorts t young mother and her infant child.
By Enock Okong’o.
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